Is anyone else finding that the ads are currently taking a very looooong time to appear? Might be a localised routing problem with my ISP, but at present the forum is almost unusable for me. Heading appears, then a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong wait, while my browser tries to contact AdBrite, and finally the page renders. Same result with FF and (ewww!) IE.

I don't object to ads in the forums per se, but if they're going to break functionality, sometihng needs to be fixed...

I donated. I don't feel as if I have to also look at irritating ads on every post page - if it was only once in a while, it wouldn't be so bad. And I NEVER click on the damn things anyway. Won't do it. I'd rather just pay for something. Which I feel I have, by donating.

i don't like ads. i don't watch tv, so i don't watch ads. i have never clicked on ads, because the ads offer me nothing i want, only what they think i want which is never anything useful. if we go down the route of "leave them on if you don't donate" or something where you start to measure the users value based on how clicks they've made...

well anyway it's off topic, the ads link is gone and it makes me happy. to each their own